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		<title>How to concern-troll a fat woman, Howard Stern style.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Howard Stern shows us how here, in his tirade about Gabourey Sidibe having the nerve to exist:  
&#8220;There&#8217;s the most enormous, fat black chick I&#8217;ve ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone&#8217;s pretending she&#8217;s a part of show business and she&#8217;s never going to be in another movie,&#8221; Stern ranted. &#8220;She should have gotten the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/11/how-to-concern-troll-a-fat-woman-howard-stern-style/</link>
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		<title>So there was this poor guy, and then there was this other guy in Paradise Valley.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zelph alerted me to my name being mentioned on a popular AZ conservative blog.  Sorry, but I don&#8217;t link to them so find it on your own.  The blogger complained that Democrats propose tax increases on the poor to pay for the services that the less-poor and the middle class people use.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/10/so-there-was-this-poor-guy-and-this-other-guy-in-paradise-valley/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Energy Blogging:  The end of growth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a quest to find good books on energy and the environment to read and recommend.  My web surfing this morning led me to LifeTwo, a site devoted to midlife.  The 2007 article I linked to cited Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by economist Bill McKibben.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/09/tuesday-energy-blogging-the-end-of-growth/</link>
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		<title>Just a folksy little grassroots organization.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what you&#8217;d think from reading the Republic piece on the Center for Arizona Policy today.  
&#8220;There was concern about how public policy impacts families,&#8221; said Cathi Herrod, who joined the group a couple of years later and is now president. &#8220;We were seeing a need to have someone on-site at the Legislature on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/04/just-a-folksy-little-grassroots-organization/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Republicans seek to increase the welfare rolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From yesterday&#8217;s East Valley Tribune:
With state finances evaporating, Gov. Jan Brewer is moving to help those with needs get their services from church and nonprofit groups.
In an executive order Tuesday, Brewer created a 20-member task force to coordinate volunteer efforts statewide. The panel also will look for ways to both inform people of the services [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/03/arizona-republicans-seek-to-increase-the-welfare-rolls/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Energy Blogging:  One-stop debunking shopping.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bookmark this site!  It&#8217;s Skeptical Science: Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism.  The good folks there are compiling global warming denialist arguments and providing quick rebuttals to 91 of them.  Sample:
Skeptic Argument	vs	What the Science Says
1	&#8220;It&#8217;s the sun&#8221;	In the last 35 years of global warming, the sun has shown a slight cooling trend. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/02/tuesday-energy-blogging-one-stop-debunking-shopping/</link>
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		<title>Who pays for John Kavanagh&#8217;s health coverage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fairly certain that Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), retired police officer and member of the Scottsdale Community College faculty, enjoys great health care benefits.  And because he&#8217;s a Family ValuesTM conservative and Pro-LifeTM he couldn&#8217;t care less if poor people can&#8217;t see the doctor.  It&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re real people like fetuses, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/02/who-pays-for-john-kavanaghs-health-coverage/</link>
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		<title>Trent Franks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now I&#8217;m sure y&#8217;all are aware of his recent comment:
FRANK: In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say “How brave were they? What was the matter with them? You know, I can’t believe, you know, four million slaves. This is incredible.” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/03/01/trent-franks-really/</link>
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		<title>Buh bye for now HB2701</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon the lege killed the solar jobs killing bill.  
House Bill 2701 was killed two days after hearing from several solar companies, including Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., which threatened to abandon plans to locate a factory in Goodyear.
The bill was seen as a potential showdown with the Arizona Corporation Commission, which had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/02/25/buh-bye-for-now-hb2701/</link>
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		<title>OH NOES!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a howler of a LTTE this morning, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-LD9) beseeched readers to support HR2701.  
Join me in a fight to save utility customers millions of dollars from unreasonable mandates placed on them by the Arizona Corporation Commission.
These mandates have forced electric-utility companies to charge a tariff on utility bills over and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democraticdiva.com/2010/02/25/oh-noes/</link>
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